Word: infects
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Leeson certainly had the quickness to rise at Barings at a time when a "bite the ass of a bull-every day" attitude-as a British securities executive describes it-was beginning to infect the bank's stiff and cautious culture. In the early '90s, the London headquarters of Barings was struggling with the division that championed derivatives-financial instruments that use the public's massive bet on securities to create a parallel universe of side bets, some straightforward (like futures) and others arcane (like swaptions). Derivatives helped the Tokyo unit make huge amounts of money-the kind of money...
...Like many others, he understood the power of new molecular and cellular methods for dissecting viral functions," Varmus told the Harvard Gazette. "But unlike most others, he retained a deep appreciation for the fact that viruses infect whole organisms, not just cells in petri dishes, and that these infection cause human suffering and death...
...catch about "Good Times" is that the e-mail is supposed to infect your system immediately upon being read. Some versions of the rumor claim that once infected, your computer's hard drive will be corrupted...
Tonight Harvard gets a chance to infect the Dartmouth campus with a disease of its own, that being the disease of defeat at the hands of the Crimson women's swim team...
According to Harper's Magazine Lopez allowed the mites to infect his ear for four weeks, and lost hearing in that ear due to infection and clogging. Despite much suffering, Lopez repeated the experiment two more times to confirm his results. After the experiments, he flushed out his ear with warms water, which restored his hearing to normal in two weeks...